Screenshot from UHF's music video.
Song: UHF
Running Time: 5:09
Year: 1989
Albums: UHF, The TV Album,
Parody of: Pastiche of "State of Shock" by the Jacksons w/Mick Jagger; combined with old school rhythm-and-blues-revue style rock (Wilson Pickett, The Blues Brothers, etc.)
Genre: Hard rock
Guitar tuning: E standard
Lyrics: Lyrics
Video: Yes
Download/Listen: None
Alternate Versions: UHF (Single Version)
Forum: Forum Discussion Page
Trivia[]
- This song is the theme from the movie UHF Starring "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- This is one of the many "Weird Al" songs where the theme is Television.
- “Weird Al” and his band parody in the music video in order: Guns n’ Roses, George Michael - "Faith", Robert Palmer - "Addicted to Love", Prince, Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime", Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer", ZZ Top, Billy Idol - "White Wedding", The Beatles- "Your Mother Should Know", INXS and Randy Newman - "I Love L.A.".
- At some point in the music video, “Weird Al” parodies Bob Dylan. He does the same thing in the music video for Bob.
- The music video for this song is noted as “Weird Al”’s most ambitious music video to date.
- The only difference between this and the single version is that this has an extended guitar solo and an extended opening.
- Al saying they "control the horizontal" and "the vertical, too" is a reference to the 1963 television show The Outer Limits.